David Barton Again Falsely Claims The Average Welfare Family Receives $61,000 A Year In Benefits

A few months ago, David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program, where he falsely asserted that the “average welfare family” receives $61,000 a year in government benefits.

As we pointed out at the time, this was an entirely misleading claim first put forth by the Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee back in 2012 that was, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explained, derived by relying on “a series of serious manipulations of the data that violate basic analytic standards and are used to produce a potentially inflammatory result.”

But just because the claim is false, that certainly is not going to stop Barton from repeating it, as he did when he appeared on Daystar’s “Marcus and Joni” program yesterday: